Crime and Courts

Disgraced and jailed former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein underwent emergency heart surgery on Monday in New York City, according to a legal representative.

September 2024 marks ten heart-breaking years for the family of Sarah and Jacob Hoggle.  The children were just 2 and 3 years old when they vanished in Montgomery County.  What happened to them remains a mystery.  In this NBC Washington Rewind, News4’s Darcy Spencer has been following this case since the beginning and explains the efforts to find them and...

Two people who prosecutors say were motivated by white supremacist ideology have been arrested on charges that they used the social media messaging app Telegram to encourage acts of violence against minorities, government officials and critical infrastructure in the United States, the Justice Department said Monday.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin in the federal trial of three former Memphis officers charged with violating the civil rights of Tyre Nichols.

Someone shot and killed Brandon Gant last year in D.C. while he was out buying medication for his mother. His family and friends gathered for a vigil Sunday in the hopes of making sure his murder is not forgotten. The 23-year-old was driving in the 1800 block of Minnesota Avenue in Southeast D.C. Police say he was an innocent...

Police are investigating a fire and stabbing at a Silver Spring furniture store. News4’s Mauricio Casillas reports.

Family and friends of Brandon Gant gathered for a vigil to make sure his murder is not forgotten. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

Police are investigating a fire and stabbing in a Silver Spring furniture store. News4’s Maurico Casillas reports.

The body of an Oregon nurse who went missing earlier this week has been found and her neighbor has been arrested and charged with her murder, police said Saturday.

A man being accused in 20 incidents of theft at two local CVS stores has been arrested. News4’s Dominique Moody reports.

A Pakistani citizen has been arrested and charged with planning a terror attack in New York City with the goal of killing as many Jewish people as possible, the Department of Justice announced.

Nine Chicago-area mayors sent a letter to President Joe Biden Friday seeking a pardon for former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

Authorities say a student at a Maryland high school has died after being shot by another student during a dispute in a bathroom at Joppatowne High School. Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler identified the victim in Friday’s shooting as 15-year-old Warren Curtis Grant. They identified the shooter as a 16-year-old fellow student who fled immediately afterward but was caught minutes...

After a man and a group of middle-school-aged girls beat a 64-year-old man to death in D.C. this fall, the girls walked away in a “celebratory” mood, a detective testified that video footage shows. Reggie Brown died after he was brutally assaulted on Georgia Avenue NW early the morning of Oct. 17, 2023. A Metropolitan Police Department detective described him…

One teen shot another during a dispute in a Maryland high school bathroom Friday in what authorities called an isolated incident.

A 23-year-old man has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the fatal shooting of a national gymnastics champion in his apartment near the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus.

Two women testified they heard screams before finding Reggie Brown beaten and bloodied in an alleyway. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

The police department said they were notified of a Department of Children and Families (DCF) investigation at Bradley Inn on Ella Grasso Turnpike Thursday. Authorities said they removed a child from a motel room and later discovered that there were drugs in the child’s system, including cocaine and methamphetamine. Windsor Locks police obtained a search warrant for the motel...

The Kansas City Chiefs superman was sentenced for a string of 11 bank robberies across seven states.